I Am Listening To This Song Right Now

@Robert I must have 10 LP's of Melanie! She was great. I was never a Faces --or Small Faces fan. But Rod did great with the Faces. And that may have been the best he ever was- he got vert melodramatic in the later 70's and 80's. But Ronnie I always thought deserved better and the Stones were definitely it.

The UK has some great act-namely Ladies, that weer popular BEFORE the Beatles. And that is the UK music I loved. After the Beatles , and stones much of the UK music sounded the same the next 8 or so years. So many copycats.

Julie Grant-When You ask about Love
Petula Clark-Sailor
The Lana Sisters- Seven Little Girls or Ring A My Phone
Vernon Girls-You know what I mean
The Poni Tails-Born Too Late (I have that 45)
Sue Thompson- Sad Movies Make me Cry
Mike Sarne and Wendy Richard-Come Outside
Kathy Kirby- Dance On
Helen Shapiro-You Don't Know

to name a few

Now THAT was UK music!

I saw Melanie live several times. I was besotted. Im going to have to look some of those up.

Pet Clark is and was a Sweetie. I was bedbound in 64 with sunburn, and had to listen to Downtown ad infinitum. Helen Shapiro - still sings the clubs. Kathy Kirby, I had forgotten.

Another I do remember from that era was Susan Maugham with 'Bobbys Girl'. But the US list is huge too.

@Robert History tens to cite Susan's version of "Bobby's Girl" as being better than Marcie Blaine's--but in that I have to disagree. Pet Clark sang great in French. "Marin" is "Sailor" in French. Helen was a teen back then. And since the record buying public on UK was teen girls, the only way these teen girl acts COULD seel records was to sound much older than their teen years. And appeal to an older audience. My point being The Beatles and Stones killed the careers of many of these acts.

Yes, so true!

@sweetpea: Thanks. Iti s such a romantic song. Great soul musiv had a way of cutting through all the fluff in our lives and touching, each of us, in our core and our soul. Few other msical genres can do that.

To those who have found a true love, this song is a celebration of that love. To those that HAD a love they perceived as true, but turned out not to be, this is a wistful,tearful and melancholy song. ( I would fall into this category) But it may also be self cathartic.

At times, we need reminded just how special a love we once had really was.

@GrooveraGirl: Thanks. i love Otis, He had away of touching the heart-soothing it if it was broken or just consoling it if it needed it. And this song does that. Great soul singers had that gift-and Otis was the best, the standard. Shame we lost him so soon.

But the message of love this conveys is very touching.

@Elandra77: I agree... :)

@DuchessOfMapleSyrup Me too. I have the second printing of that Lp- the one without the poster insert that read "At last" That was yanked form the Lp as both had died and it sounded as if Reprise wanted them dead.

@BexEyes It's hard not to love Otis! Sam Cooke may be the founder of Soul music and reined supreme until his 1965 death but after that Otis took over as King of Soul. Both of them are so gifted. Sadly neither lasted the 1960's.

Otis is just phenomenal in this.

It is excellent!

@SW-User Not sure where Otis got his energy from-but he sure did put it in his performances. Soul music was a special kind of music.